M.I.A. picks up three nods for "Bad Girls" clip and Lady Gaga is notably absent from the list

Cementing the fact Rihanna seems to have been everywhere over the past year or so, the pop star has tied Drake as the most-nominated artist for the 28th installment of MTV's Video Music Awards. Both artists received five nods each, but if you count the vids Rihanna is featured in, including "Take Care" with Drake, she's nominated 11 times. Katy Perry comes in just behind them with four nominations. Other than pop-star ubiquity, the trend the network is spotlighting this year is the rise of dubstep and EDM music, including for the first time an Electronic Dance Music category that features videos by Skrillex, Avicii and more. Check out the full list of nominees below.

As for the show itself, Alicia Keys and boy band One Direction are the first two artists the network has announced as performers, and the former will be debuting a new track on the show. The event will air live from Los Angeles' Staples Center on Thursday, September 6, at 8 p.m. EST, across all of MTV's networks worldwide. Viewers can vote in all but the professional categories right now at vma.mtv.com.

Notable nods: M.I.A. picked up three for her awesome "Bad Girls" clip, including Video of the Year. Jack White's "Sixteen Saltines" video will be competing for Best Rock Video. Frank Ocean received three nominations. Lana Del Rey scored two. And Lady Gaga got... none. MTV's been relying on Gaga (alongside Britney Spears, of course) to bring in the ratings over the past few years, but maybe her stinker of a performance as her male alter ego Jo Calderone turned everyone off last year. Hey, it's never too late to give Britney another lifetime achievement award. She is only 30.